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Malcolm X’s Gospel

March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 Ellen McLarney black intellectual history, black nationalism

In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police

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Black Power Revisited: A CBFS Interview

February 25, 2022February 24, 2022 Erik Wallenberg black nationalism, Black Panthers, Black Power, masculinity, Republic of New Afrika

Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

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(Re)locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories

December 10, 2021December 9, 2021 Kristan McCullum Appalachia, Black Appalachia, desegregation, Kentucky, Memory

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the

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Mapping Black Antiquity

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Sarah Derbew africa, Antiquity, classics, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greek, Rome

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

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Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Adele N. Norris Gender, race

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here.  The politics

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